For more on Catherine of Cleves, the Wikipedia is as ever a good start. Yes, it is: it’s not perfect, it’s a start not an end, it is of course but one resource of many; but it is still a free open encyclopaedia, democratically available to all with an internet connection or access to a public library. And allusion to Catherine of Cleves may turn out to be very important.

For this is no ordinary matter of neo-colonialist kleptocratic imperialist cultural appropriation, that special case of old-fashioned ordinary plagiarism.